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||1429 – Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380)
||1429: Jamshīd al-Kāshī dies ... astronomer and mathematician. No pic, no birth date.


File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.


||1792 – James Beaumont Neilson, Scottish engineer and businessman (d. 1865)
File:Anarchimedes measuring Galileo.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1863: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] reports that adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] "is preparing to rescue Galileo, or so he says. Impossible, I know, irrational, madness itself; yet I have seen him appear from thin air on a flying horse, and I have heard his strange discourse at some length, and though he is more a man than an angel, I believe he must partake of both."
||1792: James Beaumont Neilson born ... engineer and businessman ... iron smelting. Pic.


||1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
||1837: Paul Morphy born ... chess player.


||Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (b. 22 June 1837) was a German mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced.
||1837: Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann born ... mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced. Pic.


||Mario Pieri (b. 22 June 1860) was an Italian mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry.
||1848: William Macewen dies ... surgeon and neuroscientist. Pic.
 
||1860: Mario Pieri born ... mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry. Pic.


File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".


File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1865: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] tells reporters that he has sworn to rescue [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]], who has been false accused of committing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1874: Howard Staunton dies ... chess player.


||1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
||1878: John Burton Cleland born ... naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist. He was Professor of Pathology at the University of Adelaide and was consulted on high-level police inquiries, such as the famous Taman Shud Case in 1948 and later. Pic.


||1885 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
||1885: Milan Vidmar born ... engineer and chess player.


||1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1819)
||1892: Pierre Ossian Bonnet dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1899 – Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape (d. 1980)
||1894: Bernard Ashmole born ... archaeologist and historian. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=bernard+ashmole


||1906 – William Kneale, English logician and philosopher (d. 1990)
||1899: Richard Gurley Drew  born ... engineer, invented Masking tape.


||Eduard Ott-Heinrich Keller (b. 22 June 1906) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of geometry, topology and algebraic geometry. He formulated the celebrated problem which is now called the Jacobian conjecture in 1939. Pic.
||1906: William Kneale born ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+kneale


||1910 – Konrad Zuse, German computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer (d. 1995)
||1906: Eduard Ott-Heinrich Keller born ... mathematician who worked in the fields of geometry, topology and algebraic geometry. He formulated the celebrated problem which is now called the Jacobian conjecture in 1939. Pic.


||1920 – James H. Pomerene, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2008)
File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.


||Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen (b. June 22, 1921) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. No pic.
||1920: James H. Pomerene born ... computer scientist and engineer.


||1922 – Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (d. 1995)
||1921: Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. No pic.


||1924 – Larkin Kerwin, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1924: Larkin Kerwin born ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849) Christian Felix Klein (German: [klaɪn]; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.
||1925: Felix Klein dies ... mathematician and academic ... mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day. Pic.


||1936 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1882)
||1930: Reinhold Remmert born ... mathematician. He established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert. Pic.


File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to rewrite history by false accusing [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] of committing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1940: Daniel Quillen born ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/


||1953 – Mauro Francaviglia, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
||1953: Mauro Francaviglia born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=mauro+francaviglia


||Karl Taylor Compton (d. June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948
||1953: Hollow Nickle case: a newspaper boy (fourteen-year-old Jimmy Bozart), collecting for the Brooklyn Eagle, at an apartment building at 3403 Foster Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was paid with a nickel (U.S. five-cent piece) that felt too light to him. When he dropped it on the ground, it popped open, revealing that it contained microfilm. The microfilm contained a series of numbers. He told the daughter of a New York City Police Department officer, and that officer told a detective who in two days told an FBI agent about the strange nickel. Pic.
 
||1954: Karl Taylor Compton dies ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic.
 
||1964: Vincent Justus Burnelli dies ... aeronautics engineer, instrumental in furthering the lifting body and flying wing concept. Pic.
 
||1972: George Dawson Preston dies ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Dawson+Preston


File:Gabriel Sudan 1932.jpg|link=Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|1977: Mathematician [[Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|Gabriel Sudan]] dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
File:Gabriel Sudan 1932.jpg|link=Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|1977: Mathematician [[Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|Gabriel Sudan]] dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.


||Harold Calvin Marston Morse (d. June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory.  
||1977: Marston Morse dies ... mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. Pic.
 
||1978: Charon, Pluto's first satellite, was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.


||1978 – Charon, Pluto's first satellite, was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
||1990: Ilya Frank dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1990 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||2004: Bob Bemer dies ... computer scientist and engineer.


||2004 – Bob Bemer, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1920)
||2004: Thomas Gold dies ... astrophysicist. Pic.


||Thomas Gold (d. June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist
||2004: Victor Lvovich Talrose dies ... Russian scientist and mass spectrometrist ... the "Father of Russian Mass Spectrometry". Pic.


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Latest revision as of 18:25, 6 February 2022

  • 1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

    1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

  • 1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."

    1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."

  • 1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

    1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

  • 1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

    1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.

  • 1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

    1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.

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